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June Choe
I am a psycholinguist broadly interested in experimental approaches to the study of meaning, of various flavors. I use computational and behavioral methods to study how comprehenders parse linguistic input, both in real time and at different stages of language development.
Outside of linguistics research, I am passionate about data visualization, science communication, and the R programming language. I develop R packages and write technical blog posts about these topics in my spare time as a hobby.
Education
PhD. Student, Linguistics
Philadelphia, PA
University of Pennsylvania
current - 2020
- Focus: psycholinguistics, language acquisition, quantitative methods
B.A., Linguistics (with Honors)
Evanston, IL
Northwestern University
2020 - 2016
- Thesis: Prosodic focus strengthens semantic persistence
Research Experience
Graduate Researcher
Language and Cognition Lab
University of Pennsylvania
current - 2020
- Developed web-based experimental techniques for probing real-time acquisition of novel words that are ambiguous in the specificity of meaning.
Undergraduate Researcher
Learning, Education, and Reading Neuroscience Lab
Northwestern Univeristy
2020 - 2019
- Worked in a team of graduate students to screen over 2,000 abstracts in a meta-analysis project studying the Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) tasks as a predictor of dyslexia. Wrote R and Python scripts to snowball search scholarly databases and created a Shiny app for the analysis and visualizations citation networks.
Undergraduate Researcher
Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Research Lab
Northwestern University
2020 - 2019
- Hand-filtered and analyzed EEG data from auditory perception experiments studying the sensitivity to thematic dependency violations in listeners with agrammatical aphasia.
Undergraduate Researcher
Prosody and Speech Dynamics Lab
Northwestern University
2020 - 2018
- Transcribed audio files for phonetic and prosodic annotations in Praat and audited TextGrid outputs from forced alignment outputs.
Undergraduate Researcher
Syntax, Semantics, and Sentence Processing Lab
Northwestern University
2020 - 2018
- Constructed and audited stimuli for sentence processing studies, and ran experiments with EyeLink eye-tracking machines.
Teaching Experience
Data Science for Studying Language and the Mind
Department of Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
Current - 2020
- TA-ed and lectured for an annual introductory course on R and data science for linguistics and psychology majors. Contributed to course materials and managed a team of undergraduate TAs for leading weekly recitations.
Data Science Tutor
MindCORE
University of Pennsylvania
Current - 2020
- Held weekly office hours for students and faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, offering consultations for research-related data science and statistical modelling tasks.
Selected Peer reviewed papers
The role of prosodic focus in the reanalysis of garden path sentences: Depth of semantic processing impedes the revision of an erroneous local analysis
Glossa Psycholinguistics
N/A
2022
- June Choe, Masaya Yoshida and Jennifer Cole
Language-specific Effects on Automatic Speech Recognition Errors for World Englishes
Proceedings of COLING
N/A
2022
- June Choe, Yiran Chen, May Chan, Aini Li, Xin Gao, and Nicole Holliday
Training and typological bias in ASR performance for world Englishes
Proceedings of INTERSPEECH
N/A
2022
- May Chan, June Choe, Yiran Chen, Aini Li, Xin Gao, and Nicole Holliday
The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference: Semantic alternatives modulate subordinate meanings
Proceedings of CogSci
N/A
2022
- June Choe and Anna Papafragou
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) as a kindergarten predictor of future reading in English: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Reading Research Quarterly
N/A
2022
- Sean McWeeny, Jinnie S. Choi, June Choe, Alexander LaTourette, Megan Y. Roberts, and Elizabeth S. Norton
The acquisition of subordinate nouns as pragmatic inference
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
N/A
2022
- June Choe and Anna Papafragou
Selected Data Science Talks and Writings
Cracking open ggplot internals with ggtrace
RStudio::conf(2022)
N/A
2022
- Talk introducing a reframing of the grammar of graphics in functional programming logic for experienced users of the ggplot2 package in R.
Stepping into ggplot2 internals with ggtrace
UseR! 2022
N/A
2022
- Talk introducing the internal workings of the ggplot2 package in R for aspiring extension package developers.
Demystifying delayed aesthetic evaluation
yjunechoe.github.io
N/A
2022
- Blog post discussing the theoretical motivation behind delayed assignment of aesthetic mappings in the grammar of graphics, with a walkthrough of the metaprogramming implementational details.
Setting up and debugging custom fonts
yjunechoe.github.io
N/A
2021
- Tutorial in working with custom fonts in R. Entry in the RWeekly highlights podcast.
The correlation parameter in mixed effects models
yjunechoe.github.io
N/A
2020
- Overview of the random effects correlation estimates in the output of mixed effects models, focusing on their interpretation and implications for model building.